Dual (grammatical Number) - Languages With Dual Number

Languages With Dual Number

  • Austronesian languages
    • Tagalog language
    • Cabuano language
    • Ilocano language
    • Māori (only the personal pronouns)
    • Samoan (only the personal pronouns)
    • Tahitian (only the personal pronouns)
    • Hawaiian (only the personal pronouns)
    • Chamorro (reflected in the verb)
  • Indo-European languages
    • Avestan
    • Ancient Greek
    • Germanic languages (only first and second person pronouns and verb forms)
      • Frisian (only pronouns in some North Frisian dialects)
      • Gothic
      • Limburgish (obsolete, only the personal pronouns)
      • Old English (only the personal pronouns)
    • Insular Celtic languages:
      • Old Irish
      • Scottish Gaelic (only nouns, only following the numeral for 'two')
    • Old Church Slavonic
    • Old East Slavic
    • Sanskrit
    • Slovene
    • Chakavian
    • Sorbian languages:
      • Lower Sorbian
      • Upper Sorbian
  • Uralic languages
    • Khanty
    • Mansi
    • Nenets
    • Sami languages
  • Afroasiatic languages
    • Akkadian (Assyrian and Babylonian)
    • Arabic
    • Biblical Hebrew
    • Egyptian (including Coptic)
    • Maltese
  • Other languages
    • Hmong
    • Lakota (only the personal pronouns, always means "you and I")
    • Mi'kmaq
    • Inuktitut
    • Dogrib (only in the first person)
    • American Sign Language
    • Quenya (elvish language created by J.R.R Tolkien)
    • Khamti

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